A month later...

I'm spending so much of my communication energy on educating family members about our lives and values that the blog has taken sideline. I can combine the two! Here's a communication from me to Harry and Dee that summarizes our current happenings for the most part...
Hey Harry and Dee,
You make a good point. Being a parent means inviting new life that has its own perfect path. I know she will find the path of least resistance just as soon as the conditions are ideal. I have this new theory that my pelvis was uncomfortable for her while she was head-down. Several years of waiting tables, gymnastics, and soccer on hard ground have done a number on my all my bones.
We're seeing a chiropractor that I really trust. It's covered by Medicaid, too :). He has been adjusting all kinds of joints and ligaments that are all ready dramatically more loose and comfortable. It's weird having the body become sore due to its parts finding the right place instead of soreness resulting from the same old worn-out positions of bones and cartilage. I can't wait until we can get Jeff to a bone doctor. I know his body could benefit, too.
Also, we're trying moxibustion which is an acupressure technique used to turn babies. A lighted incense is placed to the outside of the pinky toe to stimulate a channel that encourages things to "move down."
Our midwife was at no shortage of ideas to try to flip the baby, which is great, but we intuit there's something more complex when a baby chooses her belly dance. I was scheduled this morning to have another ultrasound to determine the level of amniotic fluid that would determine eligibility for ECV (external cephalic version). The out-patient hospital procedure requires hep-block, intense relaxation (which obviously has to be synthetically induced using drugs, sic), and the doctor manually moves encourages a forward somersault by pressing on the outside of the belly. The negative sides of that procedure: Terra might not be comfortable turning yet, we would have to enter the icky aura of the hospital (an hour away), medicaid won't cover another ultrasound, we don't really like the doctor, there's a risk of fetal distress that would result in immediate cesarean (which is what we're trying to avoid all-together!).
This Wednesday we will have the midwife take pelvic measurements (pelvimetry). It's not all too informative because of the movable nature of the pelvis, but we can estimate how much room is there now or see if any bones are being awkward. We're going to try ECV with the midwife if we think Terra needs some help at her size.
Jeff and I think she will turn just before she wants to be born. We're much more level-headed now that we have explored our options for the birth and given the best consideration for the reasons she has chosen to find the positions she has. We can only respect that she is wise in her own rite. Her middle name is Sage, after all.